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Let's share our experiences on retouching and let each other learn.
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Dean Wilson
Vintage Lenses
I thought I would try out my 50 year old lenses: Canon FD 50mm f/1.5 SSC and Canon FD 28mm f/2.8 on my Canon R5 with the use of the appropriate adapter.
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Last: May 26, 2026
Charles Mercier
Outside the tourist area photos.
These photos were taken just outside of a small town in central Portugal.
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Last: May 22, 2026
Nev Clarke
Sand Porn
I really enjoy creating something different with drones. I've had the Mavic now for about four weeks and I absolutely love it.
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Last: May 20, 2026
Don Don
Single Light Headshot
Client came and needed headshots immediately. Set up a single Broncolor Para 133 in the dining room. Delivered 20 pics. Setup, Shoot, Edit and delivered within 30 minutes.
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I like your work. The way you changed the skin color and enhanced the texture on the highlights is awesome. I wonder if you could share some of your color workflow process.
Hi Jorge, thank you so much.
for the primary color correction, I use Capture One because there is a very interesting tool for skin tone, and highlight recovery is amazing. I also do my dodge and burn inside Capture One and leave the healing and cloning spots for Photoshop. however, at the end, I also apply LUTs in order to give a more unified look/color-grade to the entire image.
You can create your own LUTs in Photoshop or use the amazing program called 3D LUT Creator.
let me know if you need more detailed information.
great skin tone & retouch
Thank you (merci) Hamidreza.
Hey, man!
More of a general question. That purrfect skin - how do you achieve than. Just clone tool mostly? Or you use skin textures from somewhere else as well?
There are several ways to keep skin texture natural and detailed.
Clone tool not only won't do anything well but also it will ruin the texture if you don't use it properly. hardness should be high and blend mode should be set correctly based on each part and its luminosity.
For this image, I did "dodge and burn" at first which is the best way to keep textures where they are because you do not move or replace any pixel. then I used a technique I discovered a few years ago to recreate close to natural looking skin texture which later I found out RA Beauty Retouch panel is using a similar technique. basically, its made by a noise or grain texture with the emboss filter applied to it.
Using a texture from other sources does not match all images due to differences in lighting and textures for different skin types.